Document consequences of ssh-agent being setgid in ssh-agent(1); see

#711623.

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diff --git a/debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch b/debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch
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+Description: Document consequences of ssh-agent being setgid in ssh-agent(1)
+Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/711623
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2013-06-08
+
+Index: b/ssh-agent.1
+===================================================================
+--- a/ssh-agent.1
++++ b/ssh-agent.1
+@@ -182,6 +182,21 @@
+ .Pp
+ The agent exits automatically when the command given on the command
+ line terminates.
++.Pp
++In Debian,
++.Nm
++is installed with the set-group-id bit set, to prevent
++.Xr ptrace 2
++attacks retrieving private key material.
++This has the side-effect of causing the run-time linker to remove certain
++environment variables which might have security implications for set-id
++programs, including
++.Ev LD_PRELOAD ,
++.Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH ,
++and
++.Ev TMPDIR .
++If you need to set any of these environment variables, you will need to do
++so in the program executed by ssh-agent.
+ .Sh FILES
+ .Bl -tag -width Ds
+ .It Pa ~/.ssh/identity